Digital Media Download Page

Introduction

Every photographer wants to publish their work as books. But, books are expensive, bulky, consume natural resources to produce, and are difficult to distribute. I've written about this elsewhere.

With the advancement of the Acrobat PDF, we photographers have a perfect way to share our work with others — beautiful full-screen presentations, a true self-contained digital-book format that preserves design fidelity (typography and layout), and exists in files that are easily distributed via the Internet.

Below is a list of currently available, free downloadable ePublications.

About PDFs

With all the devices now capable of reading the universal PDF format, the idea of "universal" has become quaint — and not quite so universal. So, I produce these PDF publications in formats specifically targeted for the capabilities of different devices. Be sure you download the one you need for your viewing device — computer or tablet. PC or Mac computer users should download the Computer PDFs. iPad, Android tablet (or even iPhones and iPods) users should use the Tablet PDF versions.

Choose which version you want,
then right-click on the "Download" links at right
and "Save target" to your desktop or destination folder.

With a "left-click" some browsers will open a PDF in the browser window; you may do this, but you will find it best to download these PDFs to your computer for viewing full-screen using the free Acrobat Reader or for transferring to your iPad/Android device. If you are new to this, see the Acrobat Tips at the bottom of this page.

Tablet PDF editions

For viewing on the iPad, iPod, iPhone, Android tablets and similar devices using PDF document viewers. I recommend the Adobe Reader App, the Kindle Reader app, or GoodReader for the iPad, Moon+ Reader for Android. These monographs are image/text presentations only — without audio/video media or the other capabilities of full-featured PDFs.

iPad/Android Monographs can be viewed using Adobe Reader, Kindle Reader or similar simple PDF viewers

Copyright Notice

All content is copyrighted. All rights reserved. You are welcome to download these PDF publications and to enjoy them at your discretion. Unauthorized use, extraction, or duplication is a violation of international copyright law. Please play fair!

Made of Steel
Tablet Edition
Newly designed PDF specifically for iPad and Android Tablets

From my grandfather I learned to love the polish of long-used tools and the unmistakable aroma of oil and fresh metal filings. I can still smell his shop and hear his voice – thick with his old-world Armenian accent – echo in the tall ceilings. I guess he also taught me to love the stories and manners of old, greasy machine shop men.

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Hokusai in the Rocks

I found myself wandering the dry and dusty canyons of southern Utah, thinking about Hokusai and his famous print, The Great Wave. There it was, up on the canyon wall, that massive wave captured in ancient stone — or so it seemed to my eidetic vision. The more I stared at those ancient rock walls, the more Hokusai images I found â€” strange to see when one has entered the canyons to make decidedly American landscape photographs of the Desert Southwest. But, that is the power of Hokusai.

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Light, Glorious Light

From the depths of space, the Sun launches its energy pulses from every millimeter of its surface, casting bits and waves of itself in an ever-growing sphere of energy. For some 16 minutes this invisible energy traverses the cold and empty regions of space until it encounters some object that makes that energy manifest — a particle of atmospheric dust, a dusty photographer's warm skin, or the massive, silent face of an ancient, dusty wall of rock — and suddenly there is light.

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Winter Trees 7

The skeletal complexity of winter trees is one of their primary characteristics — one that I could stare at for hours on end. One that I have stared at for hours on end. Tendrils, veins, pathways, neurons, delta patterns, roots. Not one single straight line anywhere.

Gestures
of
a Primitive Mind

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Downloading

Windows users may download an entire PDF by using a right-click and then choosing "Save as . . ." Mac users with a two-button mouse may do the same thing.

Mac users with a one-button mouse may download an entire PDF by using click-and-hold and then choosing to save the file to your harddrive.

I recommend creating a folder on your harddrive that is your "Library of PDFs," or "PDF Bookshelf" or some such designation. Download content to this folder for storage. Launch the PDF publications from this folder on your harddrive.

Pages Won't Open on a Mac or only open with the application Preview

If the pages aren't opening or displaying as blank white pages, you are probably viewing the files with Preview on your Mac instead of with Adobe Reader OR you are using Adobe Reader 6 or less to open the files. Be sure you have Adobe Reader 7 or greater downloaded on your computer. You must make Adobe Reader 7 or greater your default PDF reader:

1. Select the PDF file you have downloaded.
2. Select "Get Info" from the File menu (or hit Cmd-I)
3. Set "Open With" to Adobe Reader 7 or greater.
4. Click the "Change All" button to make this the default for all PDFs

At the LensWork website in the tech support area, we've compiled a number of useful tips for viewing Acrobat PDF publications on our LensWork Extended discs. You'll find a lot of information there that will make your PDF experience easier and that will hopefully answer any questions you have. If you need additional help, feel free to email us for assistance.